Hi guys
basically i'm trying to give my friend a website

at www.ppforums.com/friendsname

ppforums.com's site is in /home/ppforums/public_html

what i did was this

adduser platnium
passwd platnium

cd /home/platnium ; mkdir public_html
cd public_html
touch blah
cd /home/
chown -R platnium /home/platnium
chmod 711 /home/platnium
cd /home/platnium
chmod 755 public_html
chmod 755 public_html -R

then i did
cd /home/ppforums
ln -s /home/platnium/public_html /home/ppforums/public_html/platnium

it still dont work
www.ppforums.com/platnium

[Mon Sep 17 18:23:03 2001] [error] [client 24.150.34.51] File does not exist: /home/ppforums/public_html/platinum/

can anyone help?

Why goto that trouble, just add:
Alias /platnium/ /home/platnium/public_html/

to the httpd.conf, and restart apache, that way when people access yourdomain.com/platnium they get his html docs...